CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi

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They/He/She 💀 #ApocalypticallyOptimistic 🌻 Genre-weaver writer radiating happiness w/sloshes of coffee | #HurricaneWriter, #DustWarrior, & Funshine Care Bear

A creamy coffee machine that grinds beans
A bite has been taken out of a tuna mayo rice ball, and it’s sitting on top of a spicy cod roe rice ball.
Someone is reading a book while looking at a presentation about space
A butterfly made of bones on a black background. The movie title, in all red, is Tooth and Nail
Weekend of Writing Wildly there is a list of names and times starting from Friday 7/10 at 6pm UTC and going all the way to Sunday 7/12 at 6pm UTC - all on Twitch!
Verb Your Enthusiasm book at a cafe next to a strawberry cream soda
Tokyo Mystery Circus escape room!
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo with people
Bread shaped to look like a dumbo octopus 🐙
A black t-shirt dates “Found a voice… It needs a body.”
Left monitor has the Writer’s Games prompt; right monitor had 4thewords writing space
A writing prompt appears in the background, thanks to EmberStory
Matt Kaemmerer talks about music at Need Nite Tokyo! In
A small black mug for tasting coffee and stickers; test in the background
A white page says in black letters "You have no sales to report." There is a small gray icon of a graph over "no sales."
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Teslapunk Recs? What are your favorite Teslapunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to Teslapunk? The power of cool by adding Tesla to inventions of lightning guns or a Tesla Tokyo Tower? Fighting against people/companies to make life better? Any other good points you want to add?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Teslapunk Aesthetics Named after Nikola Tesla - based around eletricty! Think Tesla coils, plasma lamps, violet rays, etc.! A little bit of steam (brass & leather) with glowing white, light blues, & neon purple electric crackles. Similar in style to Steampunk with brass, top hats, goggles, and more - this alternative history adds plentiful and cheap electricity and/or eclectic magic powers. Teslapunk Thoughts Like Edison vs Tesla, does your punk go up against a specific figure? Going up against corrupt empires? Companies? Is someone performing illegal experiments on people to gain more electric powers? If the police have lightening guns/powers, what do regular people have?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Steampunk Recs? What are your favorite steampunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to steampunk? What is your gadgeteer genius up against? Do you have sky pirates? Are you fighting for or against an empire? Any other good points you want to add?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Steampunk Aesthetics Retrofuturistic technology & designs inspired by Vitorian era/19th - go for brass & leather! Cogs, gears, dials, and analog clocks! Everything runs off steam (add boilers + steam pipes!) The world looks as if steam power was the most dominant! Inventions aren’t sleek, but untidy, cogs showing, and very much looking DIY. Steampunk Thoughts A good conflict in this time period is Romanticism vs. Enlightenment; does this continue for you? How is the environment doing as you continue burning wood and coal? Are other punks (like clockpunk or Tesla-punk) mixed with your steampunk? How are people divided? Are people fighting against your steam inventions?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Clockpunk Recs? What are your favorite clockpunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to clockpunk? Do you prefer wind up over water mills? Do you like the idea of clockpunk punching up in the future or hitting hard in fantasy settings? Any other good points you want to add?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Clockpunk Aesthetics Inspired by pre-industrial work, wood, brass, and bronze are popular, along with reflective surfaces like mirrors and lenses. Machines and devices run on highly detailed gears (powered by springs? Winding keys? Water/Air mills) Areas are very fantasy, but can also show off renaissance and Baroque time periods with incredible detail! Clockpunk Thoughts Who is making all these clockwork creatures? The government’s inventors or punk inventors? Why? Is the world/country/universe/planet a clock, and the punks are trying to stop it? Re-start it? Slow down time to prevent a dystopia from forming? Are inventors joining forces to fight? Is your punk responsible for gathering scarce/guarded materials?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Nanopunk Recs? What are your favorite nanopunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to nanopunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for longevity, the health benefits, or being able to change your looks with ease? Any other good points you want to add?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Nanopunk Aesthetics Many neutral colors, white/silver/gray/black with all the colors society wants. Machines and devices that are molecular assemblers - self-replicating nanites/autonomous nanoscale robots High tech areas that look clean (too clean), places to quickly program or get pre-programmed nanites to change anything about you. Science can help... but will it? Nanopunk Thoughts Are we still human with these nanites changing you? Are you still you? Actually, do you have a personal identity anymore? Warning: the grey goo apocalypse is coming! Or maybe those nanites are rewriting rival codes... Are you fighting at the molecular level? The companies or people behind “enemy” nanites?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Biopunk Recs? What are your favorite biopunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to biopunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for the bio-hacking or the engineered DNA? Any other good points you want to add?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Biopunk Aesthetics Bio-luminescent blues, purples, pinks + sickly greens and yellows against dark colors Organic areas with biological architecture - your environment might be alive! High tech areas with labs (illegal + legal), mega corporations with trademarked DNA, along with modified crops, bacteria, animals (not just for humans) Biopunk Thoughts Are we still human with genetic manipulation? How much is too much? When does it become failed, or body horror? Are your punks against the system? Fighting their own bodies? What’s their purpose? Who does it help? What/Who are you fighting? Out-of-control parasites? Corrupted beast-men? Police designed with no empathy?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Cyberpunk Recs? What are your favorite cyberpunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to cyberpunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for the gritty city or the “everything’s fine” VR system? Any other good points you want to add?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Cyberpunk Aesthetics Explosions of neon colors (purples, reds, greens) against dark skies/buildings Signs in multiple languages showing a multi-ethnic culture in the area Tall buildings crammed into small areas so there’s no sky, only more buildings, exposed wires stretched across everywhere Cyberpunk Thoughts What makes us human? How are “non-human” people treated? (Robots, clones, AIs, people with cybernetic implants?) Are your punks against the system for themselves or for a community? What’s their purpose? What are you fighting? Oppressive tech? Corrupted companies? An invasive police state?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What is "~punk"? Punk was a subculture of music in the 1970s and 1980s - the ethos of punk primarily "being yourself and be against The Man." Anti-corporation, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarians, anti-corporate greed mixed with DIY-ethics, freedom, non-conformity, individual liberty. What does this mean in writing? Challenging the norms, looking at alternative futures, and going against the grain. What do you get when a book is "~punk"? Not just a variety of future/past/otherworld aesthetics. It’s a pairing: Aesthetics + Punk. Punk isn't dead
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills 1 Cyberpunk 2 Biopunk 3 Nanopunk 4 Clockpunk 5 Steampunk 6 Teslapunk 7 Disealpunk 8 Decopunk 9 Raypunk 10 Atom(ic)punk 11 Aetherpunk 12 Dreampunk 13 Mythpunk 14 Elfpunk 15 Bugpunk 16 Solarpunk 17 Lunarpunk 18 Seapunk 19 Forestpunk 20 Hydropunk 21 Desertpunk 22 Stonepunk 23 Sandalpunk 24 Silkpunk 25 Junkpunk/Salvagepunk 26 Cattlepunk 27 Mannerspunk 28 Dreadpunk 29 Hopepunk 30 Capepunk 31 Apunkalypse Bonus: Splatterpunk
A white women in a blue dress stands in front of a blue alien man. The title is Cosmic Caretaker written by Coffee Quills, and the blurb goes: Ann-Marie jiggled Salek. "You look like you're nice and warm in your blanket? Just snug as a bug in a rug I bet!" The baby wriggled in the blanket cocoon, and something weirdly shiny-gold slipped out. An antenna?! The baby had antenna?!
The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklof, why the world needs the night.
A white space ship is approaching a space station against a purple planet. The title is Crossed Circuits written by Coffee Quills, and the blurb goes: "Why hasn't anyone scavenged the place? For the building material, if not the scientific research.” Files, videos, private folders, research papers. None of it helped with the current questions he had bubbling.
Pokemon Chansey (big, pink, and with a white egg)
A white women in a blue dress stands in front of a blue alien man. The title is Cosmic Caretaker written by Coffee Quills, and the blurb goes: "We need to go, now!" The emotional reflex at the sound was fear and the alien man moved fast; he held the baby closer, snagged her purse, snatched his backpack, and pulled her after him. Ann-Marie dug her heels into the ground.
Crystal River with plenty of green trees and a sandy bottom
In cursive brown, there's written Happy Monday. A small hedgehog holding a leaf says "It's dangerous to go alone, take this!" and there's a to-go cup of coffee on the lower right-hand side.
A desk shows two monitors and a LOT of small cute and weird things around it. The keyboard glows.
In orange cursive is "Hello Friday" on a backdrop of gray chalkboard. In the upper righthand corner is an orange moon with three black bats flying in front of it. On the bottom left in yellow-orangish block letters is "Find a leaf, pick it up, then all day, you'll have good luck!" and on the right side is a happy fat hedgehog holding an autumn leaf.
October #writinglifemonthly Day 02 What's a book you can't stop thinking about? Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites
This is a poster about Coffee Quills. "Hello! I’m Coffee Quills, but feel free to call me Coffee, CQ, or Quillsy. My brain collects story ideas more than a geologist with minerals. I love writing, reading, games!" There are things that they love, like hedgehogs, minerals, Fallout the video game, and sea slugs. There's places to find them: Twitch, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Bluesky, + TikTok. And there are "Many Quills - Many Genres" with "Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, + More" books written.
A small blast on his left side propelled him right, and a worry formed in his gut when he saw nothing large enough to hold, or hide, a body. “Which means that if Orion was here, after, I'm guessing, an explosion, ze would be floating in view. The fact that ze isn’t makes me think there used to be debris here, ze entered them, and they are still moving or were hit hard by something else to be flung farther out." - this quote is from Scavenged Ghosts by Coffee Quills
October Worldbuilders Day 1 - While this desert has many large red rocks and the sand dunes are a hazy, rusty shade of orange, the name fits even if that’s not where it comes from. Temperatures here can reach the high 100s, and most of the families who live out here tend to dig downward when carving (literally) out new rooms. If there’s a need to go somewhere else, travel is done mostly in the much colder night.
October - #WritingLifeMonthly - Day 01 - This month's writing goals. Written on a cream colored background, boarded by brown, and with a book in the bottom left corner and a typewriter in the bottom right corner.
On a blackboard background, a ghost and a hedgehog have cups of coffee. In orange it says "Good morning!" and in purple is says, under a line up of different cold and hot coffees, "may you have the coffee you need."
On a chalkboard background is a hedgehog holding a leaf, surrounded by many leaves. Above the hedgie says "Hello October!" and under it says "What's new?" Then there's a ghost saying "boo!" next to jack-o'lanterns.
A cup of coffee has a thumbs up in the middle of the dark liquid. Under the coffee cup it says "First I drink the coffee and then I can do the things."
A bad of Salomon Chips, where the pink and brown design had a little fin on the side
A book, "Bite Me" by Coffee Quills is show for pre order. A woman stands in front of stormy beach and great white sharks. A blue ribbon says “Ava took a deep breath and readied herself for the last part. "And while ripping throats out is a respectable action, can we agree that we will talk over things first? The shark woman looked at her for a few moments, but then she nodded."
5 LGBTQIA+ Books to Read by CoffeeQuills - monster romance spicy -> Bready of Knot - urban fantasy zombies -> Knitting Necromancers - solarpunk (on sale) -> Growing Seeds from Stones - post apocalypse (on sale) -> Blasted Research - urban fantasy spicy (on sale) -> Lunar Witch's Guide to Keeping Secrets
A small caterpillar or worm is on a paper towel in a kitchen with veggies
A book, "Bite Me" by Coffee Quills is show for pre order. A woman stands in front of stormy beach and great white sharks. A blue ribbon says “Then, since she's very publicly screaming for him in a public space, he's going to come here and bring his guards out with him, just in case. There's absolutely no way he's going to pass this up, it's an avenue stroll to free publicity."
#ClifiPit a climate change fiction pitch event in BlueSky 9-18-2025 - more info at solarpunkmagazine Orange background with a blue rectangle, these word, and a burning sun logo from solarpunk magazine
Nonbinary Book Sale! 3 books for .99 cents all with nonbinary main characters, written by Coffee Quills. Top left book: Growing Seeds from Stones - Moss is feeling caught between two hard rocks, the younger generation wanting change and the older generation not. But the seeds of rebellion are growing and xe refuses to do anything other than thrive. Middle Right Book: Lunar Witch’s Guide to Keeping Secrets - As a lunar witch, and someone who prefers to stay out of the spotlight, Meray is fine setting up an informational booth in Witches' Alley. Then there’s Liane. An explosion. Grady. And secrets xe needs to keep until an unstable spell can be removed. Bottom Left Book: Blasted Research - Dr. Jules is sent into the wastelands on a fetch quest, hiring Kirk and Li as xyr guides. But the wasteland loves its little surprises and it’s going to take every ounce of determination, sacrifice, and friendship to stay alive... let alone find happiness.
A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says "What about your friend Davith, right?" "He had an elder brother on a generation ship, but the convoy never made it to their final destination. All were reported lost, vanished somewhere between point A and point B on the journey."
A book cover is against a teal background. Various arrows show statements. - What would you do if I said yes? -Xe/Xem pronouns - 2 types of swimming lessons - Non-binary & sexual main character - Trust earned; love gained The book is Blasted Research by Coffee Quills
A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says "I have a system with the friend I was talking about before, Davith. When one of us explores an area alone, we set up an email to auto-send after a certain amount of time goes by and we haven't checked in with our personal computers."
A woman stands on a beach in front of waves. There are three sharks behind her, she's holding a trident, and the title of this book is Bite Me: put some teeth into politics - written by Coffee Quills
A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says "Are you alive, ze wanted to ask. No answer... Which ze should have expected. Noise didn't travel across the vacuum of space. But they did turn to ze, and ze noticed when their eyes locked onto zir suit. "Wait!" Ze called out.
A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says ""Or instead of finding you, we’ll be adding your body to the collection," sighed Davith. "Which I truly never want to do, so please be careful." "You know I will." "No, I know you’ll do everything for the job.”
Knitting Necromancers - yarned and dangerous by Coffee Quills. A zombie hand is holding a ball of pastel yarn and there are knitted skulls in the background.